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Supporters of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh climb the pillars of the Unknown Soldier Monument during a rally to show support in Sanaa. Huge crowds in Sanaa and other Yemeni cities demanded that Saleh leave after months of popular tumult that has brought the Arab world's poorest country close to economic meltdown. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

Actress Frederique Bel wears a bicycle necklace as she arrives for the screening of the film Habemus Papam (We Have A Pope) in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in France. Vincent Kessler/Reuters

FC Barcelona supporters celebrate their team's victory in winning the Spanish league soccer title as the players ride in a bus through Barcelona, Spain. Emilio Morenatti/AP

First Lt. Krystal Belland hugs her children, Caleb and Emily, as she prepares to leave the Army Reserve Center in Knoxville, Tenn. More than 200 soldiers from the 489th Civil Affairs Battalion will spend the next month training at Fort Dix, N.J., before traveling to Afghanistan in June. Miles Cary/Knoxville News Sentinel/AP

A Pakistani security official shows photographs he found in the luggage of soldiers after a double bombing outside a security force training center in Shabqadar, Pakistan. Sixty-six of the 80 victims in the attack were recruits for the Frontier Corps, a police officer said. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said the attack was in retaliation for Osama bin Laden's death. Mohammad Sajjad/AP

A child plays with a ball in a camp for people affected by the 5.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked the ancient town of Lorca in southeastern Spain on Wednesday. The earthquake killed nine people and injured more than 120. Thousands of residents have been sleeping in the streets. Jon Nazca/Reuters

Inga Gibson, (r.), of Honolulu, and Mindy Gilbert, (c.), of Jasper, Ala., care for dogs and cats found in the Alberta City community of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Teams from the Humane Society of the United States are still searching for stray animals and lost pets amid the rubble left by last month’s killer tornadoes. More than 350 dogs, cats, birds, snakes, lizards and even a tarantula already have been found in the shattered neighborhoods of Tuscaloosa. The local animal shelter is so full it had to erect tents for additional space. Dave Martin/AP

US astronaut Michael Fossum prepares for an exam at the International Space Station at the Russian cosmonaut training center in Star City outside. Fossum, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov are scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on June 7. Sergei Remezov/Reuters

Laborers clean the windows of the Zifeng Tower in Nanjing, China. Sean Yon/Reuters

Anti-government protesters mourn during the funeral of Majed Al-Ghrghzi, who was killed last Wednesday during clashes with the police in Sanaa, Yemen. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, (r.), looks at newborn babies as he visits maternity hospital number one in the city of Kostroma. Dmitry Astakhov/RIA Novosti/Reuters

A Palestinian uses a home-made weapon during clashes with Israeli security forces at a protest in the mostly-Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. Nir Elias/Reuters

Children wave flags during the visit of Britain's Prince Charles to 9 Regiment Army Air Corps in Boroughbridge, northern England. Nigel Roddis/Reuters

A two-month-old leopard cub peers out of a cage at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok. Thai police arrested a UAE citizen just after midnight as he was preparing to fly first class from Bangkok to Dubai with various rare and endangered animals in his suitcases including four leopards, a Malayan sun bear, a white-cheeked gibbon, a black-tufted marmoset, an Asiatic black bear and two macaque monkeys. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks at the town hall in Exeter, N.H, where he announced his plans to seek the Republican nomination for president. Jim Cole/AP

A Palestinian boy watches a rally organized by the Islamic Jihad movement to mark Nakba, or Catastrophe, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Nakba commemorates the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. Suhaib Salem/Reuters

Inmates fill sandbags for the construction of temporary levees in Butte LaRose, La. Residents were nervously awaiting the government's decision on whether to open the Morganza Spillway in Louisiana this weekend to prevent massive flooding in New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana. Eric Thayer/Reuters

The experimental aircraft Solar Impulse takes off for its first international flight to Brussels from the airbase in Payerne, Switzerland. The solar-powered plane has the wingspan of a Boeing 777. Laurent Gillieron/Keystone/AP